| LC control no. | n 92086744 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Fram (Ship) |
| Beginning date | 1892-10-26 |
| Field of activity | Polar regions--Discovery and exploration |
| Found in | Sannes, T.B. Fram, c1989. LC data base, 08-28-92 (hdg.: Fram (Ship)) Fram Museum website, March 17, 2023: vessels webpage (The Fram was the first ship specially built in Norway for polar research; the ship occupies a unique position in the history of exploration, being the ship with the record of sailing both the furthest north and furthest south of any, thanks to the first and third expeditions the Fram undertook) <https://frammuseum.no/polar-history/vessels/the-polar-ship-fram/> Wikipedia, March 17, 2023: (Fram ("Forward") is a ship that was used in expeditions of the Arctic and Antarctic regions by the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdup, Oscar Wisting, and Roald Amundsen between 1893 and 1912. It was designed and built by the Scottish-Norwegian shipwright Colin Archer (in Larvik, Norway) for Fridtjof Nansen's 1893 Arctic expedition in which the plan was to freeze Fram into the Arctic ice sheet and float with it over the North Pole. Fram is a three-masted schooner with a total length of 39 meters and width of 11 meters; the ship is unusually wide and shallow to withstand the forces of pressing ice. Fram was initially fitted with a steam engine; prior to 1910 this was replaced by a diesel engine. Fram was launched on 26 October 1892. Fram was used in Nansen's 1893-1896 Arctic expedition, Sverdup's 1898-1902 Canadian Arctic islands expedition, and Amundsen's 1910-1912 South Pole expedition. The ship was then left in storage until the 1920s, when it was preserved and is now installed in the Fram Museum (Oslo, Norway) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fram%5F(ship)> |
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